Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NORNS (Northern Narratives: The Poetics of Cultural Contact between Germany and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages)
Período documentado: 2015-09-01 hasta 2017-08-31
I have begun disseminating my findings with an article in the ‘Modern Language Review’, a leading journal in the field. I also communicated insights from my work in my blog
The project’s societal impact was similarly democratic and educational: I wanted to show how learning about the Middle Ages can help wider society to question oversimplified understandings of migration and national identity in Europe. Two highlights of how I developed these implications of the project can be given here. The first is the presentation, ‘Shared Identities in Medieval Germany and Denmark’, that I gave to a class at Frederiksberg Gymnasium in Copenhagen; the topic had an immediate relevance because many students were from minority backgrounds (April 2017). The second is the public performance of narratives between East and West by the actress Serap Güven (born in Turkey, living in Brussels) that I coordinated at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen in Berlin (July 2017).